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Thomas R.
Lynch Biography

Thomas R. Lynch is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the
School of Psychology at University of Southampton.

He was the Director of the Duke Cognitive Behavioural Research
and Treatment Program at Duke University (USA) from 1998-2007. He
is currently the Director of the Emotion and Personality
Bio-behavioural Laboratory at the University of Southampton.

Professor Lynch is the treatment developer of Radically
Open-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT)—a new transdiagnostic
treatment approach informed by 19 years of clinical research—with
strong roots in standard DBT.
He has been the recipient of multiple large research grants from a
range of sources, including the National Institutes of Health,
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression,
American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, the Hartford Foundation,
the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research.
He is currently the Chief Investigator of a multi- centre
randomized controlled trial examining the efficacy and mechanisms
of RO-DBT funded by the NIHR- Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation
programme (http://www.reframed.org.uk/; Lynch).

He is a recipient of the John M. Rhoades Psychotherapy Research
Endowment and a Beck Institute Scholar. He is recognized
internationally as a world-leading expert in difficult-to-treat
disorders; such as, personality disorders, chronic depression, and
anorexia nervosa and is in frequent demand as a speaker
internationally—e.g., Europe, USA, and Canada.

He is the author of the RO-DBT treatment manual entitled
Radically Open- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Disorders of
Overcontrol (In press-Guilford Press, New York).